" WE HAVE NO CHOICE MEGAN!" Ash growled out his voice harsh and cold as he shouted. "What would you have me do? This is our daughter, you heard what the oracle said; if we don't do this she WILL die"
"Well this isn't our only option Ash we don't need to get ourselves into even deeper shit by making a dangerous deal. Listen we should just go out and-" Meghan said trying to compromise but was cut off by my interruption.
"You know as much as I love to hear you two bicker my ear drums can only take so much" I said smirking as I walked towards the bikering couple.
"Goodfellow? What are you doing here?" Ice boy asked slightly annoyed at my sudden appearance.
I quirked an eye brown at him and gestured to Meghan.
"Princess invited me, said it was important. So what may I ask, is so big that I have to swim over here from Beijing"
"I'm pregnant Puck" Meghan said bluntly dropping another bomb on me.
"Wow again! Oi you guys sure are busy," I said slightly baffled by the revelation.
"Wait don't tell me there's another big foreboding prophecy again? Or maybe world war three?" I said with a smirk, noticing ice boy pale (if that was even possible with his vampire complexion )
"Puck um…..well" Meghan started and I just groaned.
"Ugggh I'm having deja-vu , what's gonna happen this time? Is the world gonna split open?"
"This is no laughing matter Goodfellow!" Ash spat his silver eyes cutting into me.
"If we don't so something this unborn child is going to DIE"
"Well that's cheery! How exactly am I supposed to help you with this?" I asked leaning up against a tree, absent mindedly looking around the wyldwood trying to keep my eyes averted from Meghan's bulging tummy.
"We need a favour" Meghan asked suckering me in again with those sincere blue eyes of hers . I melted.
"Fine" I sighed reluctantly.
"What do you need you need me to do?" I asked
And Ash shot Meghan a questioning look, almost as in asking for permission. After a moment she nodded slowly.
"I need you to contact an old friend for me, she's probably the only one that can help us now" Ash said.
"So is there an emergency hot line or something that I can use to reach her? How the hell am I supposed find this "Friend"?" I asked crossing my arms in indignation.
Ash smirked, "You don't find her, she finds you"
"She has taken many names over the centuries but the most recent of which is Nexia Amarillo" he said continuing grinning as he took in my reaction.
"You don't mean….."
"Yes" he sighed, "The angel of death, the grim reaper."